Mécanique Statique et Irréversibilité
Émile Borel
dactylographic monkeys
infinite monkey theorem
Jorge Luis Borges
Aristotle
On Generation and Corruption
Cicero
De Natura Deorum
Blaise Pascal
Jonathan Swift
Arthur Eddington
statistical mechanics
Thomas Huxley
William Shakespeare
R. G. Collingwood
accidental art
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In the video for Walk on Water (2017), a song about art, aging, self-doubt, insecurity, criticism, and creativity, Eminem and his various clones use SMC Classic 12 typewriters to type random words in a nod to Émile Borel's 1913 analogy of dactylographic monkeys with respect to statistical mechanics.
The video closes with Eminem showing typed evidence of his creative genius: "So me and you are not alike / Bitch, I wrote 'Stan'".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryr75N0nki0
Notice the overlap of the dactylographic monkey idea and the creation of combinatorial creativity in Eminem's zettelkasten practice. The fact that he's brilliant enough to have created Stan (2000) is evidence that he's not just a random monkey, but that there is some directed thought and creativity which he has tacitly created during his career. https://boffosocko.com/2021/08/10/55794555/
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